The new green grabbing frontier and participation. Conserving drylands with or without people

Gargallo, Eduard; Haller, Tobias; Chatty, Dawn; Weissman, Samuel; Meessen, Heino; Giger, Markus; Maisuradze, Roman; Iashvili, Nikoloz; Chkhobadze, Nino (2022). The new green grabbing frontier and participation. Conserving drylands with or without people. In: Kronenburg García, Angela; Haller, Tobias; van Dijk, Han; Samimi, Cyrus; Warner, Jeroen (eds.) Drylands Facing Change. Interventions, Investments and Identities. Routledge

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Drylands have been affected by so-called green grabbing—that is, the dispossession or displacement of local communities in order to expand areas devoted to conservation, as well as the significant curtailment of access to natural resources by non-displaced groups. Conservation schemes often contribute to heighten political, economic, and even ecological tensions, adding further layers of contention in dryland areas already experiencing land conflicts and marginalizing local pre-existing common property management institutions. Within the political ecology theoretical framework, we analyse how different actors involved in conservation initiatives interact and how power and socioeconomic differences play out in the development of these schemes. We also pay attention to the new common property management institutions that may appear as part of the conservation programmes—the so-called new commons. These institutions, in addition to intended or unintended economic and environmental impacts and to local reactions to the new situation, can sometimes reframe, at least partially, the results of conservation schemes to the advantage of drylands communities. We aim to provide a general overview of the green grabbing processes in drylands, highlighting the most significant global trends and the main impacts on the affected populations, while paying attention to local, specific circumstances and avoiding undue generalizations.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	10 Strategic Research Centers > Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology
UniBE Contributor:	Haller, Tobias, Meessen, Heino, Giger, Markus
ISBN:	9781003174486
Publisher:	Routledge
Projects:	[505] Land Matrix Official URL [805] Sustainability Governance
Language:	English
Submitter:	Melchior Peter Nussbaumer
Date Deposited:	07 Dec 2022 15:29
Last Modified:	21 Dec 2022 10:01
Related URLs:	Publication
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175576